id:			171154
accession number:	2013.67
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.67
updated:		2024-03-26 02:01:38.368000

Portrait of Ezra Davenport, 1929. Clarence Holbrook Carter (American,1904–2000). Oil on canvas; unframed: 113 x 90.2 cm (44 1/2 x 35 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Huntington National Bank 2013.67

title:				Portrait of Ezra Davenport
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creation date:			1929
creation date earliest:		1929
creation date latest:		1929
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creditline:			Gift of The Huntington National Bank
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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	American Painting and Sculpture
collection:	American - Cleveland School
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Clarence Holbrook Carter (American,1904–2000)  - artist
One of Cleveland’s most imaginative interpreters of the American scene, Clarence Carter was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, and developed a love of drawing at an early age. Encouraged by his family, he took private watercolor lessons and won art prizes in county and state fairs in his early teens. He studied with William Eastman, Henry Keller, and Paul Travis at the Cleveland School of Art, 1923–27. He exhibited in the annual May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1927–39). In 1927 William Milliken, then curator of paintings at the art museum, organized a subscription scholarship to allow Carter two years of travel through Italy, Switzerland, England, and France. In the summer of 1927 he studied in Capri with Hans Hofmann. On returning to Cleveland in 1929, Carter had his first solo exhibition at the Cleveland Art Center. He taught studio classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1930–37. In 1934, under the auspices of the Public Works of Art Project, the first of the New Deal art programs, Carter was commissioned to paint two murals for Cleveland Public Auditorium. For a subsequent governmental art program, the Works Progress Administration, he served as a district supervisor for painting projects in north east Ohio. After 1935 he completed two federal mural commissions: one for the post office in Ravenna, Ohio, and another for the post office in his hometown. In 1938 he moved to Pittsburgh to teach at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University). During the 1930s and 1940s he showed in annual exhibitions in Philadelphia, New York City, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. <br><em>Transformations in Cleveland Art</em> (CMA, 1996), p. 224
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measurements: Unframed: 113 x 90.2 cm (44 1/2 x 35 1/2 in.)
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	inscription:	signed lower right:  Clarence H. Carter '29
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The May Show: 12th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen
	opening date:   1930-04-22T05:00:00
	<i>The May Show: 12th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 22-June 1, 1930).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Art Institute of Chicago (03/19/1929 - 04/21/1929); Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (10/17/1929 - 12/08/1929) "Carnegie International"', 'opening_date': '1929-03-19T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Cleveland Museum of Art "12th Annual Exhibition of Work by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen [May Show]" (04/22/1930 - 06/01/1930)', 'opening_date': '1930-04-22T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts, Pittsburgh, PA "The Carter Exhibition" (04/18/1940 - 06/02/1940)', 'opening_date': '1940-04-18T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (02/10/1943 - 03/21/1943) "America 1943: Realists and Magic Realists"', 'opening_date': '1943-02-10T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ (03/30/1974 - 05/27/1974) "A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings and Construction by Clarence Holbrook Carter"', 'opening_date': '1974-03-30T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	The collection of the artist
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	Union Lennox Company, Cleveland, Ohio
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	Union Commerce BankCorporation, Cleveland, Ohio
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	The Huntington National Bank Collection, Columbus, Ohio
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Clarence Holbrook Carter Entry Card to 1930 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAMS01872

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